My White 406 progress thread

[darragh]

Hey folks for any one that cares or that knows me they know that this has been coming for a long time, lol! Any one that knows me knows that I have a love for 406s simply because they are economical cars, comfortable to drive, cheap to buy, cheap for parts and I like the look of them. Also the fact that im studying and living in the holylands in weeknights means I don’t want to bring a good car down incase it gets damaged. Been driving and selling away at them for ages now and have had more than my fair share of them lol and have never been let down by one yet, think there a great run about.

So I was on eBay one night when I seen a 03 car at the right money which I won in an auction. (Needed to buy one younger that 01 to transfer personal reg onto). The car was an 03 moonstone blue one which was one of my favourite Peugeot colours. Me my woman and my mate went over on the boat the next morning as a passenger with ulsterbus which drove from stranraer to Glasgow and I picked up the car and drove home and was back in Ireland that night.

Few pics of the blue one which i took today(very dirty in the pictures)







I bought a set of alloys from a mate for handy money that needed a wee lick of paint and got the tyres stripped and the rims rubbed down and undercoated.

Drove away at the car since September, and said that I would put the alloys on it after the winter was over as I couldn’t be bothered having to respray them if they got damaged by salt in the winter.

Was on bebo one day when I seen a picture of this Audi which I thought was totally amazing looking, and thought that if I had a white 406 I could do something similar without having to spend a large amount of money on a run about



So I then set about looking for a white hdi 406, looked on eBay and Autotrader websites for weeks to I found one at the right money. Found one in Manchester that was only five minutes away from my uncle who lived in that area. So he went and viewed the car for me and placed a deposit on it for me and I sent a bankers draft out the next day and got the car delivered to the boat in Liverpool by my uncle a few days later when the draft cleared,

Got a few wee pictures of the car today as I only got around to giving it a quick wash.

[teamster1975]

Welcome Darragh!
That's a lot of Pugs in your driveway!

[Doggy]

Hello & welcome, Darragh

[eoin27]

Welcome Darragh, Good to have another Paddy here! I'm from limerick but live in dublin. Where u at? Nice pugs, I'm mad about the white ones too (Taxi movies) and it would look lovely after a bit of a cleanup. The bonnet is a bit mishapen. Was it in a bit of a tip? Whats with all the UK 6's? Are you in the trade?

[steve_earwig]

Hi there Darragh, welcome to you and your fleet

...cheap for parts...

Am I missing something?

[Welly]

Is it me or does the white one not look that straight at the front end?

You must *really* like 406's fella

[nimike]

Is it me or does the white one not look that straight at the front end?

Aye the gaps between the panels dont look consistent.

[darragh]

ya i do a bit of trading, the car got a bonnet replaced on it at some stage. the person who fitted the bonnet really was not that good at his job at all. so im going to take the bonnet off the car and readjust it at the hinges. should straighten the gaps and lines up nicely.

im from armagh myself and think that the pugs espically 406s are a great car!

[darragh]

The car needs a wee bit of tidying few scrapes here and there bit I was lucky enough to have the scrapes in the right places, i.e. the places that would need repainted black any way. At some stage some god dam cat must have had a jig on the roof of the car and scratched the hell clean out of it. I was going to get it done in vinyl but priced it and it worked out as much as getting the roof painted.

A few pics of the scrapped roof








Also the car must have been to big for some driver and the clipped the wing mirror (must have been a woman driver! Joking!) but this will also be painted black anyway

[darragh]

As said above I got the alloys of a mate of mine with good tyres on them, they are 18” dare v2s and they needed a lick of painting as they were all kerbed. So I rubbed them al down and gave them a good undercoating



I was unsure as to what colour I wanted to paint them i.e. white or like some shade of anthracite. I loved the wheels that were on the picture of the Audi above so I decided that I would try doing them similar to them

Started of by painting the inside of the spokes black





All of the alloys painted with the inside black



The next stage of the painting was the most difficult and time consuming as it took ages to mask over the black and I had to be very careful not to miss any of it or else it would have got covered in white.



The next stage then was to paint the rest of the rim white. This was done with transit van white 2pac paint with a bit of thinner added to it.







The next stage then was to peel the masking tape of and hopefully reveal the black paint which I had done prior





Pictures of the alloys with the masking tape removed





I still have to lacquer the alloys and I need to get new stickers made for the centre pieces in black as the ones I have at the minute are silver and will not match the rims

[HimBigChief]

I need to get new stickers made for the centre pieces in black as the ones I have at the minute are silver and will not match the rims

Why not just spray the centre caps black aswell? Saves on getting new ones.

It's coming along nicely now. I'm also doing a similar thing to you with my 406 (see link in my signature).

[eoin27]

You don't hang about mate eh?

That 406 is gonna look savage. Are you painting the roof and mirrors black????

[darragh]

Right bit of an update here folks, sorry its taken so long. One of the site members from jon44w had a 406 leather interior for sale on here a few weeks back and I went and looked at the interior and ending up taking the whole car of him.




Started into stripping the interior which was in great condition apart from a rip in the back of the drivers headrest and the drivers arm rest missing. Got a new one sorted already and leaving it and the headrest away to get recovered.

Interior in the old 406 dirty as the cars been sitting up for months



Then started to take it out.





Interior getting taken out and my new seat






The horrible interior that was in my white 406, the ugliest set of seats that I have ever seen in any Peugeot






The old seats out and the new ones in.









The finished job









interior needs a good clean now that i have gotten it fitted, and im having a bit of trouble with the wiring of the drivers seat (which ive mentioned in the electrical part of the forum) but i have however managed to get the seat comfortably fitted and adjusted to my drive postition to i manage to get the problem sorted. i will have more pics added in the coming weeks as i have all of the parts sprayed and just to get get them fitted which i will do when i get time

More to follow, thanks for looking Darragh

[ECA]

Looking good fella coming along very nicely


Wouldnt mind a leather interior for mine

[eoin27]

Hey. Cannot wait to see how it ends up. You're gonna lose the side airbags with the new interior tho. I agree, the old one was crap. It shouldn't be too hard to source an armrest and headrest.